Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup. The report suggests reduced supply and short-term price pressure may follow as the market adjusts. Update: Samsung refutes the SATA SSD lineup demise rumor.
Disks are all moving to NVMe, so this is like IDE being replaced by SATA, not the collapse of the consumer storage market.
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It would be helpful to call out and explain the specific inaccuracy in addition to the sarcastic put down, for those of us wanting to learn
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Did you miss the title where it says “SATA SSD”?
That’s half the internet gone, then.
The problem is motherboards typically only have 1 or 2 NVMe ports, but 4+ SATA ports. So consumers will be losing a lot of potential storage expandability when SATA SSDs are gone, especially in small form factor cases that don’t have room for 3.5" spinning disks.
No they’re not. SATA isn’t going anywhere. Hard drives are still the only option for truly massive amounts of affordable storage, and they won’t be fitting into the M.2 form-factor anytime soon.
If you want the middle ground, fast but not as expensive as NVME, SATA SSDs make perfect sense. Put em in raid and you can get speed, too. Not just size.
Not to mention that plenty of still perfectly usable motherboards and laptops still only have the one M.2 slot, so if you want more than one drive, any additional ones have to be SATA.
This WILL reduce supply, which WILL increase prices. For M.2 drives too, because people who could have gone straight for SATA, now have to buy M.2 and put it in an adapter.
Did you miss the part where it says SATA SSD?
Did you miss the part where I wrote three additional paragraphs after the first?
The only reason I mention hard-drives, is to make the point SATA will continue to stick around, to be used in laptops desktops, and especially network storage.
Plenty of people are gonna want to plug in a SATA SSD into that “slot”.